Background
Timmy Reid was born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised in the Crestwood area of Chesapeake, Virginia, formerly Norfolk County, Virginia. The son of Augustine (née Wilkins) and William Lee Reid.
Timmy Reid was born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised in the Crestwood area of Chesapeake, Virginia, formerly Norfolk County, Virginia. The son of Augustine (née Wilkins) and William Lee Reid.
Bachelor of Business Administration in Business and Marketing, Norfolk State College, 1968.
Reid starred in a Columbia Broadcasting System series, Frank"s Place, as a professor who inherits a Louisiana restaurant. After graduation he was hired by Dupont Corporation, where he worked for three years. Reid"s entertainment career also began in 1968.
He and insurance salesman Tom Dreesen met at a Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting near Chicago.
They were "put together to promote an anti-drug program in the local schools" and, prompted by a comment from a child, decided to form a comedy team The team, later billed as "Tim and Tom", was the first interracial comedy duo.
Years later, Reid and Dreesen co-wrote a book about those years called Tim & Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White (, co-written with sports writer Ron Rapoport). Reid started out on the short-lived The Richard Pryor Show.
Reid starred as DJ "Venus Flytrap" on the hit Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, in what is perhaps his best known television role.
Reid starred as Lieutenant Marcel Proust "Downtown" Brown (episodes 43-127), on the Columbia Broadcasting System detective series Simon & Simon. In 1988, the same role earned him an Image Award for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series". Reid appeared in the movie version of Stephen King"s epic horror novel lieutenant
He played the role of Mike Hanlon, librarian at the Derry, Maine Public Library.
Though he admitted having a great time working on the project, Reid later expressed his disappointment with the fact that his character was absent from the climatic showdown against the titular villain (played by Tim Curry). He made an appearance as Sergeant
Ray Bennett of the Seacouver Police Department in three first-season episodes of Highlander: The Series. He had a starring role in the series Sister Sister as Ray Campbell, for the entire six season run.
On April 13, 2009, Reid appeared opposite former co-star Tamera Mowry on the short-lived American Broadcasting Company Family series Roommates as Mr.
Daniels. Reid had a recurring role on That "70s Show as William Barnett. Reid has directed various television programs as well the film Once Upon a Time..When We Were Colored based on a novel by Clifton L. Taulbert.
He directed and adapted a children"s television show called Bobobobs which aired in the late 1980s.
Reid is the creator of Stop the Madness, an after school special video in the fight against drugs recorded on December 11, 1985.
Organizer, sponsor Annual Tim Reid Celebrity Tennis Tournament. Board directors National Academy Cable Programming. Member SAG, American Federation television and Radio Artists, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (life, Best Actor award), Writers Guild American, Phoenis House of California (board directors).
Married Daphne Maxwell, 1982. Children: Tim Junior, Tori LaFollette, Christopher Tubbs.